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January 2nd, 2008

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Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

frame-grab-400.jpg 

Can you please rectify this caption? It has some racial references which will be taken the wrong way by some.

A.S.

Obviously some readers would be offended by the caption headline as seen above. This appears to have been caused when a customer for our news products automatically shortened our caption headline, which was:

A TV frame grab shows a still image taken by an amateur photographer of a man holding a handgun suspected of shooting Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi

GBU Editor

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